The world of shadows answered Lind's call as he flowed through the border of the Phantasm Forest.
It was not a place even Fiends came to willingly. Their unique case was actually quite weak to it! If not for it being lethal to the other races, it could have been a bastion against them. Still, the Fiend Qi was in the air.
Some kind of searching Art? The residue was not too old so they could not be far. He did not betray his Shard Tier aura. He also used poison and acid Qi to leave a few markers or ward off any areas that his draconic instincts warned him of.
He had come to study and use the forest, not be its next victim.
It took a good part of the night before he felt a shift in the air. It was unnatural but it was not from the forest. It had a flow to it contrary to a normal forest but still a pattern. What he felt was a disturbance to both kinds of natural flow.
